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Melbourne hit by summer storm with heavy rain, flash flooding, and power outages
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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1/12/2025
Melbourne has been drenched as a summer storm dumped heavy rain on the city and surrounding areas. The system caught many by surprise, causing flash flooding and leaving thousands of homes without power in its wake.
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Rivers in the city, water features in the suburbs and a warning area reaching from Melton
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to Montfagie.
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Melbourne's city, south east and inner north were initially in the eye of the system.
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Certainly was heavy rain and particularly heavy rain to fall in such a short space of
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time.
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25mm was dumped on Olympic Park in less than an hour, more than half of Melbourne's monthly
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average for January.
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Not everyone's feathers were ruffled with the summer deluge, but there was traffic chaos
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as motorists inched through floodwaters.
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Some public transport services were delayed.
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10,000 homes were left without power, the SES receiving more than 200 calls for assistance
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as the storm passed across the suburbs.
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Because it was moving through fairly quickly, we did not see any records set, but still
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a very wet day for the city.
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The cell tracking east to Gippsland, with sail copping more than 30mm.
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The storm cell hit with little warning, but was over just as quickly.
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It won't be the last of the wet weather though, with showers and thunderstorms forecast in
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Melbourne over the coming week.
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